Center for Analysis of Terrorism

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The CAT

The Center for the Analysis of Terrorism (CAT) is a research center aiming at becoming a European leading think tank on the analysis of terrorism. The CAT is recognized as an institution of public interest.

Our missions

Provide a unique ability of research and analysis on terrorism and response strategies, with a focus on the organizational, financial and spatial patterns of terrorist activities

Create an information platform on the terrorist threat

Develop propositions for governments and European institutions and increase international cooperation and exchange of information in the fight against terrorism and terrorism financing

The team

Jean-Charles Brisard

Chairman

Leading expert on terrorism & terrorism financing, former chief investigator for the 9/11 families, lecturer on combating terrorism at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Strasbourg

Damien Martinez

General Secretary

Director of Thomson Reuters Risk, former Head of Terrorism Financing Prevention at Credit Suisse, former member of the Counter Terrorism Unit of the Swiss Federal Police

Laurence Bindner

Director of Development

HEC School of Management, 12 years experience in strategy consulting and web consulting, expertise in economic intelligence, strategic analysis and business models

The Research Team

A team of analysts contributes to the CAT’s research

The Honorary Committee

Marc Trevidic

Former French antiterrorist judge,
Vice President of the instruction at the Terrorism Division of the Paris Court

Baltasar Garzon Real

Former investigative judge at the Central Court of Instruction of the Spanish High Court

Muhannad Hijazi

Former Attorney General of the State Security Court of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Michael Chandler

Chairman of the former UN Al-Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Monitoring Group

Alain Juillet

Chairman of the CDSE, former High Representative for Business Intelligence to the Prime minister, former Deputy Director of Intelligence at the DGSE

The Advisory Committee

Aaron Zelin

Washington D.C.

Richard Borow fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, founder of Jihadology.net

Jessica Stern

Boston

Lecturer on Counter-terrorism and Law at Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School, member of the Hoover Institution Task Force on National Security and Law, former member of the National Security Council (NSC) staff

J.M. Berger

Cambridge, MA

Researcher, analyst and author, expert of the online activity of terrorist groups

John Solomon

Washington D.C.

Director Threat Finance Research WorldCheck, Member of the Board of the Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT)